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AI needs scrutiny
If the government wants to convince us using artificial intelligence is the best thing since that other great innovation, sliced bread, it has much work to do.
Opinion
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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo
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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo
Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo
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Getting there with riders of the purple sage
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Getting there with riders of the purple sage
It is not every day you meet a sage, a wise one, a light of the world and the beacon to the people.
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Queenstown back on Aussie buyers’ radar
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Queenstown back on Aussie buyers’ radar
Australians have always had an eye on Queenstown, but over the past month there has been a 30% increase in inquiries from across the Tasman from people looking to buy property here.
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Solar storms: possible solution looms
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Solar storms: possible solution looms
Solar storms are not even in my top five threat list to humankind (nuclear war, asteroid strikes, super-volcano eruptions, a supernova within 30-50 light years, and intergalactic pirates), but they...
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A dinosaur worth preserving
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A dinosaur worth preserving
Dinosaurs disappeared from most places millions of years ago, but one green, pink and blue example has survived in a St Kilda park.
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Sara Cohen School opened
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Sara Cohen School opened
Beautiful weather favoured the little ceremony that marked the official opening of the new open-air school at Caversham yesterday afternoon, the first school of its kind in the district.
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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo
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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo
Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo
Send me your teenagers — we are the future
Send me your teenagers — we are the future
Do your kids like the idea of earning money straight out of school, and earning $80–90k before they’re 30?
Writing an obituary for Britain — maybe
Writing an obituary for Britain — maybe
Britain has lost its mojo, Tony Martin writes.
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Stay close in times of trouble
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Stay close in times of trouble
For an army which has been ‘‘virtually decapitated”, to quote United States President Donald Trump, Iran’s defence forces still seem to have plenty of life in them.
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Yorks invited to NZ
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Yorks invited to NZ
London, June 8: A New Zealand dinner in farewell to High Commissioner Sir James Allen, who presided, was held to-day.
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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo
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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo
Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo
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Let’s hear it for the 80-year-olds - a premier generation
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Let’s hear it for the 80-year-olds - a premier generation
What a great job the octogenarians are doing.
Lowering the drawbridge to examine the elephant
Lowering the drawbridge to examine the elephant
Gerrard Eckhoff laments the battle of the experts over the proposed Santana gold mine.
Why roads rather than hospitals?
Why roads rather than hospitals?
We need hospitals, not roads, Dave Bainbridge-Zafar writes.
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Supermarket tinkering
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Supermarket tinkering
Jaded shoppers will not have been surprised there has been little improvement in supermarket competition in the last year, despite years of noise about it.
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Notes from Ophir
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Notes from Ophir
Since the four days and nights of fog last week we have been enjoying typical Central Otago weather — bright, sunny days and clear, keen, frosty nights.
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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo
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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo
Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo
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What does Netanyahu want to achieve in Lebanon?
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What does Netanyahu want to achieve in Lebanon?
‘‘The war is over,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Congress last Tuesday. But it isn’t.